Iran has signed a historic agreement with the West where it will accept strict constraints on its nuclear programme in return relief from trade sanctions worth billions of pounds to the Iranian economy.
At least 22 people, including the Iranian cultural attaché Ebrahim Ansari, are reported to have been killed in two blasts that targeted the Iranian embassy in Beirut.
Iran has been willing to deal for at least a decade. Why are there still calls for more sanctions?
As Russia and the United States, and their respective allies, lock horns at the G20 and in the UN Security Council and perhaps eventually find a face-saving way out of their self-inflicted paralysis, the dynamic of the Syrian civil war has long taken a direction that will see neither of them as a winner.
Are British authorities still trying to censor the publication of documents which should have been declassified on MI6’s involvement with the CIA in the 1953 Iran Coup?